Speaker 1: Welcome to three sixty rad re League from every angle,
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Speaker 2: Joining me the Great.
Speaker 1: Gordon Tallis, Buzz Rothfield and Brent Reid. And what a
Speaker 1: night of footy it was here at Allegiance Stadium.
Speaker 2: It was electrifying. How'd you find it?
Speaker 3: Exhausting but amazing. Honestly, last year we didn't know what
Speaker 3: to expect, but this year it just went to another level.
Speaker 4: I've loved every moment of becoming here and cover a
Speaker 4: great game and be involved. Three Month Street was a
Speaker 4: master's stroke to have the fans all in one spot.
Speaker 3: I thought it was fantastic.
Speaker 4: Our hotel was full of the Warriors fans, how respectful
Speaker 4: they were. It ticked every box on me and even
Speaker 4: the game obviously a couple were lobsided, but I really loved.
Speaker 5: I described it McCallum as Magic Rand on steroid. It
Speaker 5: was that good. And you know, a great result from
Speaker 5: the NRL. I thought the crowd was a little bit
Speaker 5: below expectations. They got forty five two hundred something like that,
Speaker 5: but you know what that was. That was a ten
Speaker 5: percent increase on last year and Peter Orlandi's when I
Speaker 5: spoke to him, promise it's going to be bigger, better
Speaker 5: next year. They're going to spend more money in promotion.
Speaker 5: They're determined to get up to that fifty thousand crowd.
Speaker 5: But overall, the whole week, the celebration of rugby league,
Speaker 5: it was a magnificent time to be here.
Speaker 6: Mark a buzz. Forty five thousand lot a bad effort.
Speaker 7: I mean we stepped up a notch this year and
Speaker 7: this is the standard now, this is the bar.
Speaker 6: I think we can keep.
Speaker 7: It and push forward because it's gone up a level
Speaker 7: from last.
Speaker 6: We need to keep the momentum going sort of.
Speaker 2: Thanks some people here.
Speaker 3: We have to p.
Speaker 1: Patrick Delaney, Lochlan Murdoch, Steve Rawley. They deserve so much credit.
Speaker 1: I mean this spectacle it was big last year, it's
Speaker 1: better this year. It's a success and a success story
Speaker 1: really because of.
Speaker 8: The ben the you know, growing up in rugby league,
Speaker 8: you know we're all the humble game. But I think
Speaker 8: we've grown, like we we have outgrown that. I think
Speaker 8: to come here now and we're not the humble little game.
Speaker 8: I'm not the suburban game. We belong on the world stage.
Speaker 8: That's one thing that that I truly believe now and
Speaker 8: we've got to start thinking that.
Speaker 5: I was sitting up that box this afternoon. I sink
Speaker 5: back to leg Comoble. I was sink back to Henson
Speaker 5: Part back in the and you know you could go there.
Speaker 5: You get a hot dog, a beer and a pie
Speaker 5: for loose change. And then you come to Las Vegas
Speaker 5: in one of the most magnificent stadiums in the world,
Speaker 5: forty five thousand people here the champions Penrith.
Speaker 9: Playing so well to beat mate.
Speaker 5: The game has come so far and it's the back
Speaker 5: of those guys, you said, Lochla Murdoch put it on
Speaker 5: Fox here in America, Patrick Delaney's, Steve Crawley Andrew rab
Speaker 5: They've done a sensational jow.
Speaker 6: It just makes you proud to be involved in rugby league,
Speaker 6: doesn't it.
Speaker 7: When you're at Freemont Street this week, you felt proud
Speaker 7: I'll be involved in this game.
Speaker 8: Gordon, you know, really like it's well, I've never been
Speaker 8: proud to walk down and what do you might have
Speaker 8: played rugby league because it's because that's like where it is.
Speaker 8: And then people talking magic round you know what. We
Speaker 8: hit we hit target, we hit bullseye Brisbane magic round
Speaker 8: works here, Like they go, well, where's it going to
Speaker 8: go to?
Speaker 3: It's here. Let's make this the home.
Speaker 1: I think the Americans are buying you more too, like
Speaker 1: Vegas is actually embracing it.
Speaker 2: Last year you getting in a Capa and herber they
Speaker 2: had no idea what it was. This year, they actually did.
Speaker 1: They knew that the Aussies were in town, they knew
Speaker 1: the Kiwi's were in town, they knew the pummies were
Speaker 1: in town. And every year that's going to grow, right,
Speaker 1: So you know, I think every year is going to
Speaker 1: strengthen and get better.
Speaker 2: And that's what the whole idea is.
Speaker 7: It was never gonna happen overnight, right, but I think
Speaker 7: it's advanced more quickly than we thought it would.
Speaker 1: Let's relieve all the best moments from Vegas.
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Speaker 11: huge day for rugby league it has been.
Speaker 9: Now we get to the first of the NRL games.
Speaker 5: The Camera Raiders and the Warriors of New Zealand.
Speaker 2: This is our great game. This is rugby lay.
Speaker 5: Now, said Christ said Christ said, Christ's savage.
Speaker 10: He's away.
Speaker 2: They're chasing good way. Can a color go all the way?
Speaker 2: It's another camera try. The Camera Raiders triumph in Vegas.
Speaker 3: What a moment.
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Speaker 2: They're too classy. They're putting on a show here in Vegas. Oh,
Speaker 2: I want to move by Robertson.
Speaker 12: It is her first half hand trick to maker Humpton's gone.
Speaker 2: This is jewel rous perfection.
Speaker 11: Some of the biggest names of the competition, Penriyth and
Speaker 11: Cronella in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: How good is this his past? This brilliant day for
Speaker 2: the Sharks.
Speaker 11: By Hemflick the switch shitty last play had to run.
Speaker 2: It opened the Yo searchers.
Speaker 11: Over Cleary over the top har fall. That is sweets.
Speaker 11: What Cleary did think was masterfully and drew the run back.
Speaker 9: Check the try is there.
Speaker 11: This is a heavyweight battle this week, Cleari, with it
Speaker 11: honor James for cold than the past in the corner
Speaker 11: for Laurie.
Speaker 2: Beautif executed said play under propiction.
Speaker 11: Alphadu a blake that time seven to land for to
Speaker 11: a blake is there, He's over for Cranella. Vegas hands
Speaker 11: a grandstand finish to the final game. Cleary.
Speaker 9: Here they come to Panthers down with the ball on downside.
Speaker 2: Don't God, what a weird but champs are off and.
Speaker 3: Running in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 11: What a day in Vegas.
Speaker 2: What a week it was here in Vegas.
Speaker 1: But let's unpack the big one that last game, which
Speaker 1: was an absolute crack at the Penrith Panthers just getting
Speaker 1: over the top of the Kanala Sharks Penrith again or
Speaker 1: class Penrith again.
Speaker 2: Their big guns stood up.
Speaker 1: Cronella were fantastic and put up a great fight, but
Speaker 1: it was the Cream that rose to the top.
Speaker 2: Yet again, It's just.
Speaker 9: A team you rode off.
Speaker 6: Not enough to beat up by you, is it?
Speaker 9: No, it's not so you had brave concerns about their
Speaker 9: ability breath.
Speaker 6: Agree with Moss of the Storm favorites.
Speaker 3: Yeah, short memory, but Buzz you said the Sharks were
Speaker 3: going to win too.
Speaker 5: Just to go through this list, right, Penrith have lost Fisher,
Speaker 5: Harris lew Ee, Tarruber, kick out, Burton Crichton, Corus out,
Speaker 5: Spencer Loner, Bryant I didn't play today. They've lost two
Speaker 5: assistant coaches, Cameron surround Our and Andrew Webster. They come
Speaker 5: out Dylan Edwoods hasn't played a trial, clearly hasn't played
Speaker 5: a trial. They've had injuries surgery in the off season
Speaker 5: and they've just come out and spake for they are unlive.
Speaker 1: Arguing with Rudy the first I'm not up some great
Speaker 1: points right, and I don't disagree with a lot of
Speaker 1: them right, But that's why I was arguing the fact
Speaker 1: that it's hard not to have them as favorites.
Speaker 2: And you see that again tonight. I know Melbourne have
Speaker 2: got you to Igamana.
Speaker 1: I know that Kenra Monster was unfit last year and
Speaker 1: your own Jews wasn't was a bit unfit at the
Speaker 1: back end there. I see all your reasons and I
Speaker 1: don't disagree, but it's still hard to not have them
Speaker 1: as the top pick after especially after tonight again because
Speaker 1: are a good team.
Speaker 7: And buzzden Mentionalleam Henry didn't play on it. I's hard
Speaker 7: not to have them as a top pick when they've
Speaker 7: got Nathan Cleary.
Speaker 1: So changed, I still favorites tonight? Did it change a
Speaker 1: little bit tonight? You still have Melbourne?
Speaker 6: Let me see Melbourne play next week?
Speaker 7: Right? But you think about what Nathan Clearer did tonight
Speaker 7: off season sold the surgery. He was only clear two
Speaker 7: weeks so I didn't play a preseason game with twenty
Speaker 7: minutes ago he's getting treatment on his calf. I spoke
Speaker 7: to him after the game. He said, I was really
Speaker 7: worried that last twenty minutes.
Speaker 6: That my cars might go on me. But he comes
Speaker 6: up with big plays time after time after time. Again
Speaker 6: he is a genius.
Speaker 3: We can look at the players, we look at everything.
Speaker 3: The last.
Speaker 8: Three minutes comes through, Tellerqua comes through, they stop him right,
Speaker 8: he's a bull, and then Raimion over there and the
Speaker 8: Black Jerseys that made that tackle. So when you're going
Speaker 8: to win five premierships, you look for the desire. I
Speaker 8: think they whether they got the players or not, whether
Speaker 8: they got you know, they can get through Origin. But
Speaker 8: was there to night in round one they could be underdone,
Speaker 8: but they put the hend on'm go go, youve got
Speaker 8: to come and get it and we're going to climb
Speaker 8: this minute.
Speaker 5: Just spoke about the fans. I say, yeah, he's a champion.
Speaker 5: He is a champion lockforward and Liam Martin.
Speaker 2: William Mark did have a game. You know, he's a beast.
Speaker 7: Lindsay Smith. Lindsay Smith played I think fifty five minutes straight.
Speaker 7: I think he made thirty thirty nine tackles up to
Speaker 7: that point, ran for about one hundred and fifty meters.
Speaker 7: You know they lose Fisher Harrise. Lindsay Smith just comes through.
Speaker 7: Played for Australia last year. He's a great player.
Speaker 1: What about life after Lewis know lew Light tonight their
Speaker 1: first big Test without him in their side. Moved to
Speaker 1: the West Tigers. Obviously, what did we think without him
Speaker 1: and the team?
Speaker 6: Though Jack Cole was solid. I didn't think he did
Speaker 6: some really good things.
Speaker 7: He made a couple of mistakes, but as a really
Speaker 7: promising performance by him, I thought.
Speaker 5: Yeah, first up, you know in that shy under pressure
Speaker 5: replacing you know a really great premiership winning samo and
Speaker 5: international and I thought.
Speaker 3: He was great Jack Carl anywhere.
Speaker 2: Jack Cole, I think he's solid. I mean, he played
Speaker 2: his part.
Speaker 1: He you know that they're so methodical in the way
Speaker 1: that they play and the way that they set up,
Speaker 1: and Cleary and you know just are in the team.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 2: Cole just needs to do his job.
Speaker 1: It's so they simplified for those guys who come in.
Speaker 1: It is that next man up mentality. And I think
Speaker 1: Jack did a really good job and they'll stick with
Speaker 1: him if they keep performing like that. And they've still
Speaker 1: got ways to long and he come back.
Speaker 7: He had to rush the blood early in that first
Speaker 7: half and he put that kick through I think it
Speaker 7: was on the third tackle, turned the ball over, but
Speaker 7: he was really composed after after that did lose his
Speaker 7: head contri.
Speaker 5: You know, I mentioned this on the show the other night.
Speaker 5: They got a squad back home the beat Manly thirty
Speaker 5: eight O Neil. They put thirty eight points from on
Speaker 5: the trail match. So with Cole and all these guys,
Speaker 5: it's just unbelievable.
Speaker 8: Isaiah is the greatest chameleon that's played our game. And
Speaker 8: I'm saying that he started in the centers and he
Speaker 8: plays lock and he plays clear. He's out he plays
Speaker 8: the ball playing role. Then he plays State of Oregon
Speaker 8: and he's a front roller, stands in tackles. I don't
Speaker 8: think you put down today. He takes one off the ruck,
Speaker 8: you know, Aiden fluim I Blake comes off the line sideways.
Speaker 8: He sees that like so his vision and he's going,
Speaker 8: that's a halfbacks vision, like that's Joey oh made the
Speaker 8: front rowers come off sideways, just straight in here the
Speaker 8: first right, But then that's you know, like to me
Speaker 8: when you look at someone in your pigeonhole and they
Speaker 8: come out and they just sort of one dimensional, like
Speaker 8: the strings.
Speaker 3: He has to his boat to do it. Unbelievable to
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 5: First up a big man, and you know big men
Speaker 5: take a little bit longer to warm into a season.
Speaker 5: He the campaign he had last year he capta in Australia,
Speaker 5: he won that series. He was late in myself season.
Speaker 5: He didn't turn up the training until January, and for.
Speaker 9: Him to come over here, it was just turned up
Speaker 9: every next off the planet.
Speaker 1: They're a great team and they've got a great coach.
Speaker 1: And let's hear him right now.
Speaker 13: He would definitely looked fit enough and you know, good
Speaker 13: enough to be able to win a very tough game
Speaker 13: against a good opponent tonight. There's clearly some rust around,
Speaker 13: which is you know, always going to happen. We're just
Speaker 13: happy to, like I said, beat a good opponent and
Speaker 13: just start to be part of this extravaganza and call
Speaker 13: that is just so cool.
Speaker 2: Obviously, when you lose.
Speaker 13: Lose players, you can talk about that, or we can
Speaker 13: talk about the guys that we still have. And we
Speaker 13: have like probably five or six players in our current
Speaker 13: team that will be Panthers Hall of famers, I believe.
Speaker 13: So it's like, if you've got that many players of
Speaker 13: that caliber, you're still in a pretty good space.
Speaker 1: There is the new super coach Ivan clearly can't put
Speaker 1: a foot wrong.
Speaker 2: But ready, you still don't think that they should be famous.
Speaker 6: I didn't right them off break. I just said that
Speaker 6: my favorites.
Speaker 2: It's tight.
Speaker 7: It's tight at the top, but I think Melbourne have
Speaker 7: got the edge. But based on their squad, you know what, I'll.
Speaker 2: Move on from that. Let's see if you just move on.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see if from the Kanala Sharks coach Craig fitzgiven.
Speaker 14: Great cracking game, really like a high intensity particularly the
Speaker 14: first half and then when the game is on the line.
Speaker 14: So it's a really good first hit out for us.
Speaker 14: But obviously they are four time premiers for a reason.
Speaker 14: They what to do when it gets into those situations
Speaker 14: and those stakes, and then they just got too far ahead.
Speaker 14: So you're out of close a little bit better than us,
Speaker 14: and there are plenty of lessons and it's probably been
Speaker 14: better than the last few times we played them, so
Speaker 14: we're getting closer.
Speaker 2: The big question for the Kanala Sharks this year was
Speaker 2: who was going to be the dominant half.
Speaker 1: We spoke about it on ANERL three sixties throughout the week,
Speaker 1: in the pregame show tonight, Trindle or Heins, And as
Speaker 1: tonight's game, I think it's fair to.
Speaker 2: Say Trindle was the dominant half. Hind started well but
Speaker 2: still a question mark over his performance. So I don't
Speaker 2: want to bash.
Speaker 1: This isn't about knocking Nikko Heines, but Trindle was definitely
Speaker 1: the better on the night.
Speaker 2: How did you guys, well, When you.
Speaker 5: Talk about Nicko Hines, we go back to the year
Speaker 5: when he won the Dali m Medal by a record
Speaker 5: bargin and then got a million dollar seven year contract
Speaker 5: at the Canala Sharks, and when you're on that sort
Speaker 5: of brush brash there are huge expectations on you. And
Speaker 5: there's no question tonight that he was slightly on the
Speaker 5: disappointing side and he didn't.
Speaker 9: Play up to that pay packet.
Speaker 5: Trendall was the better of the two, is the dominant player.
Speaker 5: He took over the goal kicking from Niko. He did
Speaker 5: most of the kicking in general play. But as I said,
Speaker 5: it's one game of rugby league.
Speaker 2: It is it's the first game. I don't even think
Speaker 2: it's a concern.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's concerning, But what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: compare it to is if you look at the likes
Speaker 1: of Munster and your own Hughes and Nathan Cleary and
Speaker 1: these guys who were playing in Grand finals, it's their
Speaker 1: key playmakers that they get them there, and it's another
Speaker 1: level that you need to go to.
Speaker 2: And that's what Carnello struggled with over the past few years.
Speaker 1: They get to the finals quite easily, right, but they
Speaker 1: just can't take that next step, and a lot of
Speaker 1: that rides on on probably Nickel and his performance.
Speaker 7: Well, I made a clear the other night, but they
Speaker 7: would win a camp Nico needs to be firing. I
Speaker 7: think if we sort of tonight, they pushed Penrith all
Speaker 7: away and that was with a quiet Nico. If Nico
Speaker 7: fires up, they probably win this game, right, So you
Speaker 7: know they need Niko to be his best, not in
Speaker 7: round one, but around twenty seven and in the finals
Speaker 7: that's when Nico at his best. So there's no doubt
Speaker 7: he's got another level. And then you're up a couple
Speaker 7: of levels from here.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this is not a nickeo And you made a
Speaker 8: really good point. If you're on a million dollars, you
Speaker 8: get judged on the million dollar play. If you play
Speaker 8: in the back round, you get judged on Sonny Bill
Speaker 8: Williams or whatever. If you play halfback and you're the
Speaker 8: million dollar men, you get judged on Nathan Cleary on
Speaker 8: getting the job done.
Speaker 3: And then tonight I thought he was.
Speaker 8: Good in patches, but it started away eighty minutes it's
Speaker 8: over control and then you.
Speaker 5: Know, and a million dollar players better game managers than
Speaker 5: what we saw from him today.
Speaker 9: You know, in the big moments that you spoke about, I.
Speaker 1: Think he took a bit as the game went on,
Speaker 1: He just took a bit of a backstep and he
Speaker 1: let Trindle be the dominant one, which is okay, And
Speaker 1: he spoke about that on three sixty to us. He said,
Speaker 1: at times we will be one will be dominant or
Speaker 1: the other one will be more dominant, and Trindle was.
Speaker 1: But Niko, just when the game was on the line,
Speaker 1: you need your big guns and standard.
Speaker 6: Trindle is playing well though brace.
Speaker 7: So I suppose Nick is that he's in that position
Speaker 7: where Trindle's playing well, you almost want to step back
Speaker 7: and let if he's playing he.
Speaker 2: Can't step back, but he needs to do more. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's going to contribute. Yeah, you're a high court.
Speaker 6: Trindle had the hot hand. One guy's got that hand.
Speaker 5: Fair for us to have a very serious discussion about
Speaker 5: Nick after about a month of the competition, okay.
Speaker 2: So no, I'm not saying we don't think we'll revisit this.
Speaker 9: I think that's fans at who are talking.
Speaker 2: You'll be talking about it next week.
Speaker 3: I think he.
Speaker 9: Deserves a month before we start making.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't mean it's going to go away, No,
Speaker 2: it does, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So I agree with you, like he should be given
Speaker 1: four to six weeks, But the reality is we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about him and we're going to talk about.
Speaker 1: We talk about every key player in teams that aren't
Speaker 1: you know, probably reaching their potential.
Speaker 2: That's that's just the life that we live in now.
Speaker 2: Adn't for Noa Blake.
Speaker 1: He was really good for Sharks, big in the off
Speaker 1: season and come up with that big try at a
Speaker 1: huge moment that was that was impressive.
Speaker 5: I think you missed one tackle all night. It was
Speaker 5: for Nolla Blake just powering through him and Delan Edbles
Speaker 5: is a sensational defensive fullback and he.
Speaker 3: Was a great start, great starting.
Speaker 8: He come off the line sideways right, which is a
Speaker 8: at a defender, and then Isaiah got behind him.
Speaker 3: That's probably the only cross.
Speaker 8: But to go to a new club and get there
Speaker 8: and still learn in the system and you know, and
Speaker 8: then that's a short cut like and when you defend
Speaker 8: yours got to come off straight. Other than that, you go, well,
Speaker 8: you know, as he grows and big guys like that's
Speaker 8: that's pretty harsh because big guys round one like like
Speaker 8: they take about four to six weeks to get into that.
Speaker 1: You know that just before we move on, we know
Speaker 1: we've had our stay on the Panthers. We know they're
Speaker 1: going to be thereabouts again. If they're not the team
Speaker 1: to beat the close to it, What about the Sharks
Speaker 1: just quickly tonight.
Speaker 2: Well, I like it.
Speaker 5: I think Rudy made a good point Nikko not playing
Speaker 5: and they still got with them by the converted try.
Speaker 9: I think it was encouraging sing for the Shark.
Speaker 6: They did good point.
Speaker 9: That's you for first, because it's very rare.
Speaker 6: I reckon the.
Speaker 7: Sharks take a lot away from this because they went
Speaker 7: at their best and they pushed the premiers all the way.
Speaker 6: And as we said, nick I.
Speaker 8: Was the suck standards such a really good A couple
Speaker 8: of decisions may may have gone against them, but I
Speaker 8: thought he.
Speaker 1: Was impressive tonight the Canberra Raiders, what a performance it was.
Speaker 1: By then, we spoke to Ricky Stewart on The Mana
Speaker 1: John Show throughout the week and you know, we talked
Speaker 1: about their youth and they're inexperience, but what about their
Speaker 1: speed and their players that are young, how much they've
Speaker 1: grown and evolved.
Speaker 2: Over the preseason.
Speaker 1: You know that that right hand Timmoco and Savage on
Speaker 1: the right hand edge Stranger was outstanding.
Speaker 2: They just the way they played it was so good.
Speaker 1: Usually they're at defensive unit care but usually they're quite conservative.
Speaker 2: They were far from you.
Speaker 8: You were calling the game when you Ricky Steward come
Speaker 8: and sack. So I was on the desk, sorry, on
Speaker 8: the stills. He come and sat.
Speaker 3: We asked some question. It was like he got really emotional,
Speaker 3: like like people have written like you know, like the Raiders.
Speaker 3: Well I don't think they're at the top eight side,
Speaker 3: but then.
Speaker 9: They have got them third favorites to win the Wooden Spurs.
Speaker 3: Okay, well there, but Vegas people so so so.
Speaker 8: Ricky loves his players, wears his heart on his sleeve.
Speaker 8: But when he come over by watching his team, they
Speaker 8: were well drilled. You know, everybody thought it was going
Speaker 8: to be the battle of the big guys. But they'll fit.
Speaker 8: They're fast, they played through the middle. It was a
Speaker 8: great brand of footy. Tom's Tom Starling and I just thought, wow,
Speaker 8: there's a footy side. The challenge are Ricky now is
Speaker 8: getting them back on I think they played the Broncos
Speaker 8: in a couple of weeks time, so now it's just
Speaker 8: getting them back from Vegas mindset.
Speaker 3: Because it was so they got the biggest tick right they.
Speaker 5: Come here and the way they did was amazing bake
Speaker 5: I thought as a captains and I thought he was
Speaker 5: outstanding in the middle of the football field. And he's
Speaker 5: a different captain because he's not real talker and he
Speaker 5: loves too to do a lot of that.
Speaker 9: But maybe he was just I thought that.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see from Ricky Stewart.
Speaker 12: I said it on the Fox and there's more tongue
Speaker 12: in cheek because you guys all do write us off, which.
Speaker 2: I don't mind.
Speaker 12: I can see you for me then, But it's going
Speaker 12: to be a good competition if we come last, like
Speaker 12: he's a respected like a lot of us are expecting.
Speaker 12: Is it going to be a tough comp now? One
Speaker 12: we came here to make a statement.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen the tackle. Yeah, to be honest, I
Speaker 3: can't really make a call on it, but yeah, I
Speaker 3: was moving that fast. That's hard to you know, just
Speaker 3: so I have a look at it.
Speaker 12: It's a massive call, you know, it's it's I'm not
Speaker 12: saying it's the wrong core, but it's a massive care
Speaker 12: as long as it stays in every game.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 12: It was a massive call, and the way they handled
Speaker 12: it was it was you know, resilience.
Speaker 1: A very proud Camber Rader's coach there, Ricky Stewart, but
Speaker 1: he wasn't quite convinced that Tarpanay's hit on Barnett was
Speaker 1: a shoulder charge. He said, if that is the standard,
Speaker 1: then you know it needs to stay that way for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season.
Speaker 3: The NL is better. The referees are better at that,
Speaker 3: aren't they breath like?
Speaker 8: Yeah, the odd one slips through when they don't quite
Speaker 8: get place, and they don't.
Speaker 7: Need to lose him now, right because they may lose
Speaker 7: him now as a result of that.
Speaker 6: And it's silly by Joey. He's a great game buds.
Speaker 2: You mentioned him.
Speaker 7: He's so important to them right as a leader, you know,
Speaker 7: in the middle of that field. He doesn't need to
Speaker 7: do that stuff.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 11: It was ill.
Speaker 5: Disciplined, And Ricky makes a good point. All we want
Speaker 5: is consistency in these situation. Sound but I'm talking about
Speaker 5: the rest of the season.
Speaker 9: But same instance happened.
Speaker 5: Making that happens, I'm out of a banker on high
Speaker 5: definition screens.
Speaker 2: But now it was a shoulder charge.
Speaker 3: It was cliche.
Speaker 9: I've got no problem with that.
Speaker 2: So they will be consistent.
Speaker 3: There's no clear shoulder.
Speaker 5: Charges will always so you're declaring here and now that
Speaker 5: the referees are going to be consistent all yet.
Speaker 1: I'm declaring right here and now, if any other player
Speaker 1: does with Joe Tarking, if jo if any player does
Speaker 1: what Joe tarp and he did tonight, the same thing
Speaker 1: will happen.
Speaker 9: Well, I hope you're right.
Speaker 2: That's all. That's all she wrote. That's all.
Speaker 3: But listen, if one goes through to the keeper, don't
Speaker 3: you wreck it.
Speaker 2: Buzz be sitting there waiting. I'll be cheering.
Speaker 3: You get the vision.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: On the other side, the Warriors, well, they were disappointing.
Speaker 1: There's no other way to put it. Felt sorry for
Speaker 1: the New Zealand fans that traveled all the way here.
Speaker 1: They had a great time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were poor, poor, I really I put it
Speaker 2: down to their halves.
Speaker 1: I thought Metcalf and Harris Devita were just out of
Speaker 1: their depth and the combination there wasn't in sync. They
Speaker 1: were unorganized. They didn't get much good possession in good
Speaker 1: field position, but when they did, they were all over
Speaker 1: the shop.
Speaker 3: It was what started the year. You got to hold
Speaker 3: her on the football, you got to get through your sets.
Speaker 8: They probably didn't do that as well, But then I
Speaker 8: looked on the sideline, Fisher, Harris and Varnad are there,
Speaker 8: and then they just started strolling through the middle and
Speaker 8: it was and they just looked tired.
Speaker 3: They just looked tired.
Speaker 8: And it's probably I don't know whether it's a hard
Speaker 8: half where it's really hard to win forwards in round one.
Speaker 5: It's very early days, but they did struggle. Yeah, what
Speaker 5: you've said about the Hearts was one hundred percent right now.
Speaker 5: They've got a guy who was in about Jersey nineteen
Speaker 5: twenty to day tomorrow, Martin a lot more experienced, and
Speaker 5: I think Andrew Webs is going to have the seriously,
Speaker 5: consider they've got next week off and they've got two
Speaker 5: home games, two tough home games.
Speaker 7: We spoke about a buzz this week that is their
Speaker 7: Achilles Hill halves. They would kill his hell tomorrow. Martin's
Speaker 7: not necessarily answer for them.
Speaker 9: You can pick no one else.
Speaker 7: Well, you can mix and match those guys, but regardless
Speaker 7: who you put in the six and seven, that's the
Speaker 7: weakness that football.
Speaker 2: Madge John says you out to call it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't really a genuine there's not neither of those
Speaker 1: players who are genuine seven. Often the six you know,
Speaker 1: and then Metcalf just isn't quite I don't think he's
Speaker 1: quite ready to be a seven and own a rugby
Speaker 1: league team.
Speaker 2: Not yet. I mean again, we go on early. It's
Speaker 2: round one.
Speaker 9: It's a funny thing. We were giving Metcalf a lot
Speaker 9: of raps and trial mattress and.
Speaker 3: The trolls t get to the track.
Speaker 6: It's a big Roger as well. Well, this is for
Speaker 6: two hundred.
Speaker 2: But charlesy were clocks though. You know, I watched his
Speaker 2: game very close. This guy called it.
Speaker 1: I think he went for about sixty meters. He dropped
Speaker 1: that ball for the try for the Raiders coming through.
Speaker 1: He just looked he didn't get into the game.
Speaker 2: And you know, I think if you got.
Speaker 1: Someone like Roger at the back, and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: do it straight away, but that's a an option for
Speaker 1: them that could spark their six and seven and give
Speaker 1: them a bit more confidence. Roger ran for over two
Speaker 1: hundred meters twenty carries. But they're all just down this
Speaker 1: end of the field. They're not in the not in
Speaker 1: the strike, not not when they're trying to put points
Speaker 1: on in a good field position.
Speaker 6: So it's not going to change it.
Speaker 3: Do you think they could roam then and swap.
Speaker 8: I think Minicello and today someone you know like where
Speaker 8: they just go okay, so you get the good ball
Speaker 8: or the red zone and green zone or whatever they want.
Speaker 1: To roosters many with many on the wing, they can
Speaker 1: do it. I mean there's a there's a few options
Speaker 1: there from Andrew Webster and I'll tell you what he's
Speaker 1: he's got a few things to sort out for the
Speaker 1: Warriors to turn that around, even though it is only
Speaker 1: around one